Posted on 02/26/2019 8:48:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
After all, it is boys and men who are typically to blame for violent acts of aggression. Ergo, testosterone the defining hormone of masculinity must be to blame. But testosterone has been around forever. School shootings have not.
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I’d bet a bunch of the others had an abusive one.
I had a great pop. Died when I was 14.
Made things rough and gave mom a hard time in my later teens.
That’s when it helps to have 3 Italian uncles break a window with your body.
You straighten out from fear.
True story.
Cue the “I didn’t have a father and I grew up just fine” folks. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Didn’t really like my dad. At least I knew who he was. And all the feral blacks?
I’m sorry man. That’s too bad and i mean it.
Mine was aces but God had other plans.
Well, I started “mentoring” two puerto ricans kids 2 years ago. Being raised by single PR mom and the kids were half black/half PR.
I got to them in time i think.
No more stealing, going to school, believe that there would be a TREMENDOUS problem if they #### up big
So YES, they’re DONE with no intervention.
And most uncles/cousins/brothers/biological dads are in prison.
The two Columbine shooters were both raised in traditional nuclear families as well.
I don’t know where CNN dug up the data on the 27, and I seriously doubt that it’s a complete list. I know of a mass killing (by FBI standards four dead) in Alabama, that is never mentioned.
On this particular list...the mention of Howard Unruh (episode in 1949) occurs. He came back from WW II with serious mental issues, and was not ‘sane’.
This story is all screwed up because it talks about the top 27 deadliest mass shootings but only addresses fatherlessness for those committed since 2005.
Blaming society’s ills again on men, or the lack thereof. We can’t win.
Thanks for the post
Looking from a different viewpoint, perhaps the genes of a man who would leave his family and not provide fatherly directions were passed on and already contained that of rebellion and violence.
I was lucky, had a great father, the house we grew up in during the 50s and 60s was on a creek and on the other side of it was 30 acres of land and 20 acres of oak trees. From then until 2013 when he died he never stopped thinking of us or showing us the way.
Drugs for ADD...depression and what ever else the Doctor can give him...
Hidden from the public...medical records..
Do schools get to see these medical records???
Or maybe the divorce laws enabled women to kick the husband out and use him as a wallet while she took vacations with her new boyfriend on her ex-husband’s dime.
A father doesn’t have to sit you down for sage chats and advice like Ward Cleaver. A father doesn’t have to loom over you as the threat of authority. All a father has to do for a young man is be present, and demonstrate by example how to go through life, handle problems and adversity, and be a steady force. There is nothing toxic about true masculinity.
Or women’s poor choice of men.
We all have free will and must own our decisions and actions.
We obviously need more bastard control in the country.
Obama was a bastard.
My Dad lived to 90. Taught me how to live and taught me how to die.
Well behaved and hard working. After he retired he worked part time until he was 82.
Good on you! I’m recently retired and thinking of trying to mentor in some way.
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